Popup on Start (Execution Feedback)

OliveTin now has several options to control "execution feedback" when actions are started. This can be controlled on a per-action basis, using the popupOnStart configuration option.

You can also set the default for OliveTin using the defaultPopupOnStart configuration option.

Big Flashy Buttons (default)

config.yaml
actions:
  - title: Ping the Internet
    popupOnStart: default

This will also be the option that is used if no other values match.

flashyButton

Execution Dialog (Output Only)

This can be useful for just displaying the output of a command, without too many additional details like the start time, end time, etc.

config.yaml
actions:
  - title: Check disk space
    popupOnStart: execution-dialog-stdout-only
OliveTin used to separate out the Standard Output (stdout) and Standard Error (stderr) into two separate output streams. This made no sense, as lines would effectively be separated. This behavior has change to now display stdout and stderr in the same output stream. However, the configuration option execution-dialog-stdout-only was not renamed - and now it includes stderr as well.
popupOutputOnly

Execution Dialog

The execution-dialog option for popupOnStart is simialr to the above execution-dialog-stdout-only, but it includes the start time, end time, exit code and the duration of time it took for the command to execute.

config.yaml
actions:
  - title: Check dmesg logs
    popupOnStart: execution-dialog
executionDialog
Figure 1. Example of popupOnStart: execution-dialog

Execution Buttons

This mode of popupOnStart will create a new button for each individual execution. This can be useful for actions that are executed again and again.

The text of the button (eg, "0s" in the screenshot below), is the time it took to execute the action in seconds.

config.yaml
actions:
  - title: date
    popupOnStart: execution-button
executionButtons